Douglas J. Lisle Alan Goldhamer

The Pleasure Trap Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health Happiness The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us runnin

The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses, and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality.

Lisle and Goldhamer, a clinical psychologist and a chiropractor, respectively, claim that modern life is “the root of the vast majority of disease, disability, and unhappiness in Western civilization” in their convincing, if dramatic, argument for a back-to-essentials diet. Humans, like all animals, are genetically wired to pursue pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy. Life today, however, “has magic buttons that can short-circuit the natural connection between happiness and pleasure-s [...]